{"id":575,"date":"2020-01-29T16:34:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:34:52","slug":"stuck-in-low-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2020\/01\/29\/stuck-in-low-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in low gear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since recovering from a sinus infection and the kids being off from school for MLK Day, I&#8217;ve been slowed down to an absolute crawl on dev stuff. The lack of energy and indecision about what to tackle next has gotten me a bit frozen in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-390x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-390x1024.png 390w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-114x300.png 114w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-768x2016.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-585x1536.png 585w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized-780x2048.png 780w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/bannerScreenSized.png 1143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have kept busy with side projects, like designing the standing banner above for the upcoming MakerX show on Feb. 29th &#8211; as well as ordering stickers, since I&#8217;m getting low again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What HAS been worked on is getting the last bits of the demo polished. Since I decided to cut the 3rd level to just a brief taste, I&#8217;m hoping I can add enough emotional &#8216;oomph&#8217; to it that will leave a player wanting to see more. I&#8217;m hoping with kiddo 2 having a birthday next month, my bro-in-law will bring his PC and we can finally get his loaner Rift working and my brilliant niece &amp; nephew can get to work on tearing apart my game and finding each and every flaw and give me ideas on how to make it better. They&#8217;re good like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since recovering from a sinus infection and the kids being off from school for MLK Day, I&#8217;ve been slowed down to an absolute crawl on dev stuff. The lack of energy and indecision about what to tackle next has gotten me a bit frozen in place. I have kept busy with side projects, like designing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2020\/01\/29\/stuck-in-low-gear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stuck in low gear<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}